Places Annetta Black Wants to Go

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.